FOOD
Baumkuchen Brulee
Give your traditional Baumkuchen cake a sweet crème brûlée kick by filling it with pudding, coating it with sugar and torching it.
FOOD
Baumkuchen Brulee
Give your traditional Baumkuchen cake a sweet crème brûlée kick by filling it with pudding, coating it with sugar and torching it.
Ingredients
Baumkuchen Brulee
- 1 baumkuchen cake
- Granulated sugar, as needed
Pudding Batter
- 3/4 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 1/2 teaspoons gelatin
- 1 egg, beaten
Steps
Baumkuchen Brulee
- In a saucepan, add all pudding batter ingredients except beaten egg. Heat over medium until small bubbles start to form but it has not started boiling.
- Let it cool, then mix in the beaten egg.
- Place the baumkuchen into a round cake pan. Pour the pudding batter into the hole, then place in refrigerator until hard, about 60 minutes.
- Flip it over to remove cake from mold. Sprinkle granulated sugar over the top, then use a brulee torch to caramelize the sugar.